Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate with low-privilege API account
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ExploitSend concurrent/timed API requests
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ExecutionWin race-condition window
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ImpactCorrupt configuration state
Vulnerability Assessment
| Exploitation Conditions | Requires a valid authenticated session on HPE Networking Fabric Composer with at least low privileges (CVSS PR:L) and network reachability to the product's API (AV:N). Exploitation hinges on winning a race condition in the API, which the high attack complexity (AC:H) indicates is a narrow, timing-dependent window that cannot be triggered deterministically. No user interaction is required (UI:N). Impact is limited to corrupting configuration state - partial integrity and availability effects (I:L/A:L) with no confidentiality exposure (C:N) - which, together with the authentication requirement and timing dependency, meaningfully constrains real-world risk. |
| Impact | This is a genuinely low-priority issue, and the signals are consistent rather than conflicting. The CVSS 3.1 base score is 4.2 (Medium), driven downward by high attack complexity (AC:H, consistent with the race-condition mechanism the vendor describes), a low-privilege authentication requirement (PR:L), and limited impact (C:N/I:L/A:L - no confidentiality loss, only partial integrity/availability effects on configuration state). No EPSS score, KEV listing, or PoC was provided, so there is no evidence of exploitation probability or active abuse. The vuln.today decision label is 'this_month' - a routine, non-emergency priority - which aligns with the modest CVSS and absence of exploitation signals. No SSVC fields (exploitation status, automatable, technical impact) were supplied. The one inconsistency is in the metadata, not the technical signals: the sole tag is 'Information Disclosure,' yet the CVSS vector explicitly sets C:N (no confidentiality impact) and the description speaks of corrupting configuration state - an integrity/availability concern, not disclosure. This mislabel should not be read as evidence of data exposure. Overall this is a high-complexity, authenticated, low-impact flaw: patch on a normal maintenance cycle, not an emergency. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker who already holds a low-privilege account on HPE Networking Fabric Composer issues carefully timed or concurrent requests to the product's API to trigger a race condition, winning the timing window to corrupt the system's configuration state. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and the high attack complexity (AC:H) means the attacker must reliably hit a narrow race window over the network. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Nov 03, 2026
An authenticated user holding only low privileges on HPE Networking Fabric Composer can corrupt the configuration state of the managed system by exploiting a race condition in the product's API. The assessed vector is CVSS 3.1 4.2 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L): network reachability and a valid low-privileged session are required, the high attack complexity reflects a narrow timing-dependent window that cannot be triggered deterministically, and impact stops at partial integrity and availability loss with no confidentiality exposure. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and the issue is not in CISA KEV; vuln.today carries it as a this-month priority rather than an emergency.
RemediationAI
No fixed version appears in the supplied intelligence, so the patched release must be taken from HPE's advisory hpesbnw05172en_us rather than assumed; applying the HPE-provided update for the deployed Fabric Composer branch, once confirmed against that bulletin, is the remediation path, since the race condition sits in the product's own API and no configuration-level fix is documented here. As a compensating measure while the fixed build is identified, reduce reachability to the Fabric Composer API from untrusted networks and trim low-privileged API accounts to those that genuinely require configuration write access; this lowers exposure but does not correct the race condition, and it carries an operational cost because legitimate automation and integration tooling also depend on that API.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
HPE Networking Fabric Composer is a data-center fabric management and orchestration platform, and its API is the programmatic surface through which configuration is read and changed. The reported defect is a race condition in that API, where concurrent request handling can leave configuration state inconsistent; the available sources do not describe the specific trigger beyond the race condition itself, so the exact request sequence and timing window are unverified. The CVSS vector places the attack over the network (AV:N) with a valid low-privileged session (PR:L), no user interaction (UI:N) and unchanged scope (S:U), while AC:H signals a narrow, timing-dependent exploitation window rather than a deterministic one. Effects are confined to configuration integrity and availability (I:L/A:L) with no confidentiality impact (C:N). No CWE identifier and no CPE data were supplied, so the affected and fixed builds cannot be enumerated from this dataset, and the single reference is the HPE security bulletin hpesbnw05172en_us. The supplied tag 'Information Disclosure' does not match the assessed impact, which is integrity and availability only; the CVSS vector and the independent assessment are the more reliable signals here.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
API is network-reachable (AV:N) but exploitation depends on winning a race window (AC:H) and a low-privilege authenticated account (PR:L); config corruption yields I:L/A:L and no confidentiality impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (hpe).
CVSS VectorVendor: hpe
DescriptionCVE.org
A race condition vulnerability exists in the API of HPE Networking Fabric Composer. Successful exploitation could allow an authenticated attacker with low privileges to corrupt the configuration state of the affected system.
Threat Intelligence Overview
How this decision was reached
The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.
EUVD-2026-116189
GHSA-v256-34r4-j75q
NVD
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